Carl Ben Eielson proved Alaska could be crossed by air, flew the first trans-Arctic flight in 1928, and died on a Bering Sea rescue mission in 1929 at age 32.
TaildraggerIn February 1932, bush pilot Wop May flew into Arctic winter to help end Canada's largest manhunt for the Mad Trapper of Rat River.
TaildraggerIn 1928, Punch Dickins flew 4,000 miles over Canada's unmapped Barren Lands in a single-engine Fokker with no radio, earning the McKee Trophy and opening the Arctic north to aviation.
TaildraggerHarold Gillam was Alaska's most legendary bush pilot until a 1943 crash in the Coast Range claimed his life at age 39 during a solo rescue attempt.
TaildraggerHow barnstorming bush pilot Jimmy Angel discovered the world's tallest waterfall and crash-landed atop an ancient Venezuelan mesa in 1937, leaving his plane behind for 33 years.
TaildraggerHow broke bush pilot Bob Reeve used tidal mudflats and homemade steel skis to land airplanes on Alaskan glaciers and build an airline.
TaildraggerHow pilots rebuilt Idaho's Big Creek Lodge board by board after a 2008 fire, flying every piece into a wilderness strip with no road.
RampRadio Hangar explores Bob Reeve, the Valdez Mudflats, and the Stainless-Steel Skis That Turned a Tidal Bog Into the Only Runway a Glacier Pilot Needed.
TaildraggerHow Alaska bush pilot Don Sheldon mastered glacier landings on Denali and flew hundreds of daring rescue missions in a fabric Super Cub.
TaildraggerHow North Dakota schoolteacher Carl Ben Eielson flew Alaska's first airmail, crossed the Arctic by air, and vanished over Siberian ice.
TaildraggerHow bush pilot Bob Reeve pioneered glacier flying and made the 1937 Walsh Glacier landing that nearly cost him his life and his airplane.
TaildraggerHow Alaskan bush pilot Don Sheldon pioneered glacier landings on Denali and flew death-defying high-altitude rescues in a Piper Super Cub.
TaildraggerHow Talkeetna bush pilot Don Sheldon flew an ordinary Cessna 180 on skis onto Denali's glaciers to rescue stranded climbers.
TaildraggerSulphur Creek Ranch is a fly-in guest ranch deep in Idaho's Frank Church Wilderness where pilots land on a dirt strip for pie and elk.
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